Show CHEW HOUSE germantown GERMAN TOWN this old manston known as the chew house a situated at cutt cave aa IS U s 11 e I 1 I 1 I 1 A I 1 da don e germantown erman town where oc on ibe the morning of october 4 1777 1717 concealed by a tog and moving la in ailenn surprised the british picket encamped in a field nearby the brit sh h teter an musgrave detaching a part ot at bit regiment to support the battalion batt alloa of 0 i light infantry In trenched himself wit all companie companies la in the chew house and barricaded ita its lower windo ml ltd door dohrl while the cannon of the AD am ericaka were too light to breach hi its solidly built vails walls the bean evidence of a bold attack |